Oh Well, Just this once.....
Jan. 30th, 2009
12:11 pm
I friggin love Maira Kalman, and this art blog post "Inauguration at Last" in the NYT is so great.
If you haven't read her book "The Principles of Uncertainty", you should--it's really wonderful, and has a great recipe for honey spice cake in it.
Oct. 21st, 2008
Oct. 16th, 2008
05:42 pm - Asses of Antiquity
Ladies and Gentlemen, a new blog.
We'll see how it goes.
http://thehiddeninart.blogspot.com
Send pictures.
Aug. 8th, 2008
10:46 am - TIMESTAMP
This woman I know, JP, has an amazing show up right now at the Gay and Lesbian center. It's called Timestamp. Here's a description from the website:
"From 1998 to the present, Parr has set herself the task of creating one postcard a day. This roadmap of human experiences ranges widely in emotional substance, from light-hearted and colorful pieces about things like nursery ryhmes, bicylcle rides, and cupcakes to deeper and darker contemplations of subjects such as death and disease."
This show blew my socks off. It's amazing. She's also turned the little small gallery into a room with beanbags, couches, and lamps where you can write your own postcards and mail them. It's a ten-year diary, and it's astounding.
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garycotti said the word "douche" is done, I will call you a douche to your face if you live in LA and can't get your lazy ass to the Village to see it. Yes, that's an art threat. (And I know you're not lazy)
It's a really wonderful show. You can also browse the gallery on-line, and see all of them (and buy prints), but it's really great in person. Quite a work. She goes through the violent death of a friend, diagnosis of MS, and the AIDS ride among other things. And lots of loopy hystericality in there as well. GO!
Here's a few to give you an idea, including one of my oldest friend (not the bologna).
Aug. 6th, 2008
02:50 pm - Go see Art
A great woman I know who does Craft Night at Akbar is having an opening of her show on Thursday, featuring postcards, since she has made a postcard a day for the past ten years!!?! Go see it! Pic and info below...
This THURSDAY, August 7th, 2008 from 6pm to 9- 10pm at the LAGLC's Advocate & Gochis Galleries, is the opening of TIME STAMP EXHIBITION!
Just to be sure, you go to the right building, we're talking about
The Village at Ed Gould Plaza
1125 McCadden Place Los Angeles, CA. 90038
(323) 860- 7302
Dear friend, if you were ever curious or wanted to "swim in a bowl of JP" as my ultra-friend, Carey Bennett, put it... this is your chance.
Come and see ten years of my work, and make some of your own postcard work in the COZY ART RUMPUS ROOM aka Supernova Eleganza.
See the "WALL of CRAZY" as coined by Toxic Titty Superstar, Clover Leary.
Bring quarters for the vending machine, get souvenirs at the show, and climb aboard an arts wonderland.
All ages welcome, bring EVERYBODY! Bicycles welcome too!
Our Nation's Foremost International Traveling Poet, Jen Hofer, says of the show
"Here the personal direct address goes public, opening the embrace of its communiqué to include each of us in a whimsical, serious, sincere, radically open everyday collectivity. Here the interior spaces of a particular life are exteriorized within the vulnerable, brave confines of an ongoing series of small public missives."
If you want some previews of some of the over 1,000 little drawings and paintings, go to the TIME STAMP WEBSITE and check it out. All postcards will be available for perusal sometime August 7th.
No originals will be sold, they belong to friends and family, but if you want to buy prints, those will be available, as well as a soon-to-be-released self-published BOOK!
Feb. 29th, 2008
11:44 am - Frida
I would love to see this when it's in SF. Lucky city.
I would also suggest that accusations of megalomania derive partly from social biases. Picasso’s art is routinely viewed through the lens of biography, with groups of work said to be evidence of his emotional response to this woman or that, the active element being his genius. Few people seriously complain about this version of art as egomania. Picasso was expanding his creative territory. Kahlo didn’t know how to keep her place.
Jun. 14th, 2007
09:47 am - Gallery Show
Not too far from where I live, the Drkrm Gallery is showing pictures about AIDS activism.
SILENCE = DEATH:
Los Angeles AIDS Activism 1987–2007
Photographs by Chuck Stallard
June 16-July 21
Opening Reception Saturday June 16th 7-10pm
Anybody want to go? I'm thinking of making the trek this or next weekend.
May. 21st, 2007
Mar. 15th, 2007
04:46 pm - Amazing and Disturbing
This artist is making art that represents statistics. Like how many cans of soda are consumed in a minute, or shopping bags in an hour. Pretty incredible.
http://chrisjordan.com/current_set2.p
Oct. 18th, 2006
01:17 pm - Obviously
A busy day at work.
I can't figure out if I'm more annoyed at
1)Nora Ephron for being a complete waste of space (someone should stamp out grass-fed beef because it has no taste whatsoever!). Could she really be this much of an overfed, rich, out-of touch douche? Her whole tone of entitlement is revolting. And then she makes it all about her vow of silence. (though I love that it disgusts her that half of the head is a penis).
2)Steve Wynn for wild gesticulation near a Picasso, puncturing it, or selling it for $139 mil just to outdo Lauder and the Klimt.
3) The general state of the art market
Are all stupidly rich people like this? The whole tone of self-importance is amazing, and then claiming that it's really all about the painting--that is rich. I'm sure he feels bad, but with that much money the idea seems to be that there's always enough to fix it. And always enough to salve your conscience. Ugh. I think it's Nora Ephron, definitely Nora Ephron. The New Yorker puts a nicer spin on it, but still--it's got that "Those wacky super-rich!" thing to it.
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pissed offJun. 29th, 2006
04:01 pm - Jackson Pollock
This site is fun. Click to change color.
www.jacksonpollock.org
Jun. 21st, 2006
10:41 am - New Classicists
I was reading Roger Bourland's blog about the Rufus Wainwright show, and another entry had a painting of his dogs he commissioned. He makes a funny comment about it being the gayest thing in the world, which it is. The artist is impressive, though. I went to his website--www.jonswihart.com, and there is a gallery of much of his work. The color is a lot richer in the flash images on his site than the one above, but then again, those may not be the true colors. The subjects are interesting, and I even like some of his landscapes, and I'm not the biggest fan of those. Check it out.
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